Data Protection Authority of Sweden (Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten) · 3 December 2020
Karolinska University Hospital of Solna
Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security
- Regulator
- Data Protection Authority of Sweden (Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten)
- Decided
- 3 December 2020
- Country
- Sweden
- Sector
- Health Care
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2020/SE/004
What happened
The Swedish DPA (Datainspektionen) held that access to medical records has to be restricted based on the individual care workers’ necessity to perform his/her job. The DPA therefore fined the Karolinska University Hospital approximately €391,000 for violating Articles 5 and 32 GDPR.
Summary from the GDPRhub page for this decision, written by its volunteers, not by Fino. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Rules involved
- Art. 5Principles relating to processing of personal data5(1)(f) · 5(2)Read →
- Art. 32Security of processing32(1) · 32(2)Read →
- Data principles
- Data security
Sources
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